News Terms Vocabulary

The information essential on how the news event occurred.

• headline

• graphic

• background

• inverted-pyramid

Missing information from a news story

• source

• byline

• exclusive

• hole

A name given to everything else except the news

• hole

• feature

• off-the-record

• angle

The viewpoint the reporter takes when writing a story

• angle

• cross-reference

• briefing

• feature

Journalists do not use titles, they use this instead

• off-the-record

• copy

• hole

• headline

A contact who provides information for a story

• source

• briefing

• angle

• background

Can be a diagram, graphic, photo, charts, etc.

• graphic

• source

• exclusive

• byline

Reporters often refer to their writing as this

• copy

• inverted-pyramid

• feature

• graphic

Information where the source is NOT revealed

• headline

• inverted-pyramid

• off-the-record

• cross-reference

The details given to reporters to enable them to write their news story

• byline

• cross-reference

• angle

• briefing